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Creating Art With Mindfulness Using Silk and Dye

Description: This class will guide participants in the art of mindfulness using the medium of silk painting. Each participant will create a prayer flag that has personal meaning for transformation and spiritual growth using the art of mindfulness.

About the facilitator: Beth Schroeder is an artist and originator of Creating Art With Mindfulness. She is an experienced practitioner of mindfulness and teaches mindfulness and meditation classes for FCM (Florida Community of Mindfulness) and the South Regional Library in Collier County. Her personal art is in collections both private and public in the United States. Beth is the former coordinator of Arts in Healing at Naples Community Hospital and has written "Creating Art With Mindfulness (CAWM): A manual for Arts in Healing volunteers in the healthcare system. It can be requested through her website Bethschroederart@weebly.com or email: Creatingartwithmindfulness@gmail.com

Come Practice with Kandy

Three dates are set to practice yoga together. What does this mean?

We all bring the props we need for our personal practices. Then we share the same space for 90 minutes. I will do my mat practice and you are welcome to come and join in shared practice time. Certainly I will “mess” with you a bit (feedback/direction), however, it will not be the normal classroom structure. Please let me know you are attending, one, two or all three sessions.

Cost:

Love Offering

Contact:

Kandy, yoginikandy62@gmail.com; 239-851-8815

Join Gulfshore Life and area mindfulness experts Angela Tarquini-Sanders, Mary Robinson and Chris Lee Nguyen to learn more about the growing mindfulness movement—what it is, why it's important, why scientists are embracing it and how you can apply its principles to your daily life. Come with your curiosity, your questions—and your open mind.

Can't make it? We'll livestream the event on Gulfshore Life's Facebook page and give you a chance to ask questions remotely, too.

For a primer, check out Gulfshore Life's feature story on mindfulness here.

Vesak Day Celebration

Please join us on Tuesday, May 29th from 6:30 to 8:00 pm for a celebration of the Buddha 's birthday, also called Vesak. We will be holding a ceremony that combines elements of the Buddha's Birthday Ceremony and the Tea Ceremony, both from the Plum Village tradition. As part of the celebration we will be sharing tea and a birthday cake. If you have a poem you'd like to read, a song you would like to play on an instrument or sing, or a piece of art you would like to show, please feel free to share with us while we drink our tea.

Dharma Talk Video

by Br. Phap Khong of Blue Cliff Monastery

Saturday April 21st, 10:00 – 11:30 AM

Come join us as we watch Br. Phap Khong from Blue Cliff Monastery give a talk on "Transforming Habit Energies and Understanding Desires"

Bell Training Class

Saturday April 21st - 12:00 – 1:00 PM

Anne Kracmer will be leading a bell training class for anyone who wants to learn how to invite the bell, or just wants to deepen their practice with the bell.

No experience necessary. All are welcome. Donation

Introduction to Mindfulness and Meditation

March 12th, 19th, 26th, & April 2nd 2018

6:00pm - 8:00pm

Mindfulness: The Foundation of Wellbeing

Do you live in your thoughts about the past or worries about the future? Do your emotions often cause stress and confusion? Do you get carried away by dramas?

Introduction to Mindfulness and Meditation is a four-week course designed to support the practice of mindfulness, helping us develop the skills and attention to be fully present to our lives in the present moment, and to touch each moment deeply. It is intended for those new to mindfulness and meditation, as well as for those who want to review the basics and establish a more consistent daily mindfulness and meditation practice.

Apply mindfulness to difficult emotions and thoughts to avoid getting caught up in dramas.

Cultivate daily meditation and mindfulness practices so that mindfulness becomes and integral part of your daily life.

Christopher Lee Nguyen BA received his BA in Communication from FGCU. He has been practicing mindfulness meditation with the Florida Community of Mindfulness since 2014. In 2015, he helped start and facilitate Wake Up Southwest Florida, an active global community of young mindfulness practitioners, inspired by the teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh. In 2016, he became an aspirant in Thich Nhat Hanh's Order of Interbeing. He also currently holds the rank of Sho-dan (black belt) in the Shito-Ryu Karate-Do.

Mary Robinson MA, MS, LMFT received her graduate degrees from Florida State University and the University of South Florida. A licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Mary has completed a foundational training program for professionals in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) through the University of Massachusetts Medical School Center for Mindfulness. She has facilitated mindfulness programs in Southwest Florida since 2005 and is a founding partner in Hearts' Path to Mindful Living, Inc.

Sponsors

The Mindfulness Institute(MI) of the Florida Community of Mindfulness

Hearts' Path to Mindful Living

Flow in the New Year with Love

Kandy offers this 2-hour workshop, focusing on self-care. Easy stretching, calming breathing and comforting touch are the tools to help you flow mindfully into the New Year. You will come away not only feeling tuned up and tuned in, but also be able to practice what you experienced. Kandy is known for her fun and beneficial classes, and brings more than 25 years teaching yoga and offering massage/healing work. All are welcome, no prior experience necessary.

Enrollment is limited. Suggested registration on or before Monday, January 8. Thank you.

Mindfulness-based stress reduction

Classes coming in January & February

Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is a program that incorporates mindfulness to assist people with pain and a range of conditions and life issues that were initially difficult to treat in a hospital setting. Developed at the University of MassachusettsMedical Center in the 1970s by Professor Jon Kabat-Zinn, MBSR uses a combination of mindfulness meditation, body awareness, and yoga to help people become more mindful.

The 8-week course is designed to reduce stress, facilitate relaxation and promote physical health and well-being.

Would you like to learn and practice skills that will help you with the challenges and demands of everyday life and that will bring more balance to your life in the process? Attend the FREE orientation session for the eight-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course that begins in January, 2018. This introductory class is required in order to register for the eight-week MBSR course.

The course will be taught by Anne Louise Kracmer, LCSW. She completed MBSR in Mind-Body Medicine and MBSR Fundamentals through the Oasis Institute, Mindfulness-Based Professional Education and Training of the UMass Medical School. She also completed Advanced Teacher Training for MBCT and MBSR Teachers through UC San Diego School of Medicine/Center for Mindfulness. For more information phone her at 239-826-1557.

FREE Orientation Session:

Wednesday, January 3, 2018

6:30-8:00 pm

Eight-Week MBSR Course:

Wednesdays, 6:00-8:30 pm

Jan. 10- Feb. 28, 2018

Plus All-Day Session

Saturday, Feb. 17, 2018

8:45-4:30

Fee $350

Classes at:

Caloosahatchee Mindfulness

8719 Winkler Rd. Suite 100

Fort Myers, FL 33919

Flow through the Holidays with Love

~ Stretch, Breathe, Touch ~

December 9th 2017

9:00am - 11:00am

Caloosahatchee Mindfulness

Taylor Executive Court, 6719 Winkler Road, Suite 100

Fort Myers, Fl

Teacher - Kandy Love, PhD

This 2-hour workshop focuses on self-care during the holiday season. Easy stretching, calming breathing and comforting touch are the tools to help you flow mindfully through the holidays. You will come away not only feeling tuned up and tuned in, but also be able to practice what you experienced.

For information and registration, contact Kandy

By phone at 239-851-8815 or email yoginikandy62@gmail.com

Fee $30

Introduction to Mindfulness and Meditation

November 2nd, 9th, 16th, & 30th 2017

6:00pm - 8:00pm

Alliance for the Arts

10091 McGregor Blvd

Fort Myers, Fl

Mindfulness: The Foundation of Wellbeing

Do you live in your thoughts about the past or worries about the future? Do your emotions often cause stress and confusion? Do you get carried away by dramas?

Introduction to Mindfulness and Meditation is a four-week course designed to support the practice of mindfulness, helping us develop the skills and attention to be fully present to our lives in the present moment, and to touch each moment deeply. It is intended for those new to mindfulness and meditation, as well as for those who want to review the basics and establish a more consistent daily mindfulness and meditation practice.

Apply mindfulness to difficult emotions and thoughts to avoid getting caught up in dramas.

Cultivate daily meditation and mindfulness practices so that mindfulness becomes and integral part of your daily life.

Anne Louise Kracmer LCSW, received her MSW from Florida Gulf Coast University. She completed the two foundational training programs for professionals in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) through the University of Massachusetts Medical School Center for Mindfulness. She completed Advanced Teachers Training for MBSR Teachers through the University of California School of Medicine, San Diego Center for Mindfulness. Anne Louise facilitates mindfulness programs in Southwest Florida.

Mary Robinson MA, MS, LMFT received her graduate degrees from Florida State University and the University of South Florida. A licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Mary has completed a foundational training program for professionals in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) through the University of Massachusetts Medical School Center for Mindfulness. She has facilitated mindfulness programs in Southwest Florida since 2005 and is a founding partner in Hearts' Path to Mindful Living, Inc.

Sponsors

The Mindfulness Institute(MI) of the Florida Community of Mindfulness

Hearts' Path to Mindful Living

Alliance of the Arts

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